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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the shadow know the Town has an exit?
(a) The Gatekeeper told him.
(b) He found it.
(c) Intuition.
(d) From the map.

2. What does the Professor use the paperclips for?
(a) To keep away the INKlings.
(b) To leave a trail.
(c) To occupy his hands.
(d) To keep his aura magnetized.

3. What has happened to the hole the men dug outside the narrator's window?
(a) It has disappeared.
(b) It is full of beasts.
(c) It has filled with snow.
(d) It has been filled back in.

4. Which song does the narrator sing along to at the librarian's house?
(a) Autumn Leaves.
(b) Georgia on My Mind.
(c) Danny Boy.
(d) I'll Be Home.

5. What does the shadow say the Town's "exit" is guarded by?
(a) Mind.
(b) Watchmen.
(c) Fear.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that causes the narrator to check each joint and muscle of his body when he wakes at the beginning of Chapter 30?

2. Who does the narrator tell his shadow the Wall is really there to hold in?

3. What does the shadow call the process of removing the discharges of mind that rise each day?

4. Where does the chubby girl say her grandfather has gone?

5. What escape does the Professor offer for the dilemma the narrator is faced with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator react to the musical instruments in Chapter 28?

2. What does the narrator tell the librarian about why he got divorced?

3. Describe how the narrator's shadow is living at the beginning of Chapter 32.

4. Explain the beasts' feeding habits as observed in Chapter 26.

5. Why does the narrator say looking for the Librarian's mind is not like looking for raindrops?

6. How does the narrator whistling "I Go to Pieces" in Chapter 29 relate to the overall storyline?

7. What does the narrator say he plans to do with the Librarian's mind once he has read it?

8. How does the Caretaker of the Power Station feel about the musical instruments?

9. Which situation does the narrator define as "despair" in Chapter 33?

10. Explain what the narrator thinks about the stars as he is making his way through the underground escape route towards the end of Chapter 29.

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